Original Quotes - page 3

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. (Eric Hoffer)
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. View quote
Warren Bennis
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. View quote
Ken Robinson
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. View quote
Mark Twain
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. View quote
Alfred Jarry
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. View quote
Calvin Trillin
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. View quote
Colum McCann
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. (Orison Swett Marden)
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today. View quote
Annette Funicello
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes. View quote
Robert Shea
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. View quote
Tadao Ando
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. View quote
Jeff Kinney
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. View quote
Elihu Root
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. View quote
Claude M. Bristol
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. View quote
Neil LaBute
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off. View quote
Donald Pleasence
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. (John Shelby Spong)
Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. View quote
Adam Clarke
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans. View quote
Beau Bridges
But to me, to be original is to be yourself. View quote
Marc Newson